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Judgment in Managerial Decision Making

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Everyone who makes decisions should read this book if you are not familiar with the themes (read the table of contents). Despite being a university textbook it is quite readable if you are serious about picking up knowledge of how human decision making is biased in various ways. I especially like that the author is not pandering to bored or lazy undergraduate students. So you certainly do not have to be a student to benefit from the book. This book is also useful if you are a researcher that would like to read up on the field. In addition you get all the relevant references. I own edition 6 and that is totally sufficient and the changes to edition 7 are small. However, if you are a researcher you might want the latest edition for the updated references.

Since the relatively short book covers a lot of ground some people might not like it. A good alternative would be Thinking, Fast and Slow, which covers less material in a larger number of pages. Some might consider that book more readable, but personally I prefer the current books more concise presentation. Still I would recommend that book as a second reading on the subject. I would also read something by Gigerenzer (Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World (Evolution and Cognition) or Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty (Evolution and Cognition)), who has a broader view of what is rational behaviour.

These are my recommendations, but note that I am not an expert in the field so there might be better books out there.

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This book provides great information regarding cognitive heuristics and related biases in a nutshell. It was a great help during my thesis research, because I could refer to this one book rather than rely on the other dozens of books that were incomplete with the information I was looking for.

This book was required for a class I am taking, so I had no questions before the purchase. I find it has good concepts, but is harder to read than other text I have used. There are many references within the reading that seem to break into the flow and causes it to not be read as smooth as I would have hoped.

Received my textbook just 2 days after I ordered it. Thank you for the speedy delivery. It arrived a week before my first class. The book is as promised- BRAND NEW and was priced less than half of what I would have paid for a used textbook at the school bookstore(even with the shipping!). Thank you for helping me stay below my book budget! I will order from you again!